http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2008/04/09/making-biofuels-work-for-the-bop-in-haiti Comments for "Making Biofuels Work for the BoP in Haiti" en http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2008/04/09/making-biofuels-work-for-the-bop-in-haiti <p style="padding: 5px; float: right;"><img src="http://www.nextbillion.net/files/images/515C5XYnnOL._SS500__0.img_assist_custom.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image img_assist_custom" width="258" height="165" /></p><a href="/multimedia/2008/04/09/developing-biofuels-in-rural-haiti-the-jatropha-pepinye-today">A new paper</a> posted in our <a href="/resources/publications/#reports">resources section</a> gives a specific regional example of the potential benefits of biofuels for the BoP (this adds to our previous discussions on the subject <a href="/blogs/2007/07/10/biofuels-and-the-bop">here</a>, <a href="/blogs/2007/07/17/biofuels-and-the-bop-ii-a-way-forward">here</a> and <a href="/blogs/2007/08/13/biofuels-do-they-help-the-bop-there-are-always-two-sides-of-a-story">here</a>). <br /> <br /> The paper - by Kathleen Robbins of the <a href="http://www.greenmicrofinance.org/">GreenMicrofinance Group</a> - tells the story of a <a href="http://www.peopleandplace.org/featuredProject.php">small NGO</a>, aided by GreenMicrofinance and an enlightened <a href="http://www.ey.com/">multinational company</a>, that is piloting an environmentally sound and economically sustainable approach to biofuels. The key element is a jatropha nursery that is incubating young plants and teaching a group of Haitian farmers how to grow them. <br /><br /> The oil squeezed from the plant will be burned in lamps and cookstoves and the remaining seedcake used as fertilizer. As supplies grow, a small refinery will be built to process the plant oil into biodiesel-and the local mobile company is willing to buy it to fuel the diesel generators on their cell towers.<br /><br />(This post continues past the break; click &quot;Read More&quot; to continue.)<br /><br class="clear" /><p><a href="http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2008/04/09/making-biofuels-work-for-the-bop-in-haiti">read more</a></p> http://www.nextbillion.net/blogs/2008/04/09/making-biofuels-work-for-the-bop-in-haiti#comment Agriculture Energy Successful Models Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:36:58 -0500 Al Hammond 5415 at http://www.nextbillion.net